Mark 4:12 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

¹² I do this so that ‘They will look and look but never really see; they will listen and listen but never understand. If they saw and understood, they might change and be forgiven.’” Isaiah 6:9-10

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² In order that they may [indeed] look and look but not see and perceive, and may hear and hear but not grasp and comprehend, lest haply they should turn again, and it [their willful rejection of the truth] should be forgiven them. [Isa. 6:9, 10; Matt. 13:13-15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.

Common English Bible

¹² This is so that they can look and see but have no insight, and they can hear but not understand. Otherwise, they might turn their lives around and be forgiven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² 'so that, seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they may be converted, and their sins would be forgiven them.' "

Mark 4:12 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 43:8

“Bring out the people who have eyes but are blind. Bring out the people who have ears but are deaf.

Isaiah 44:18

People like that don’t know what they are doing! They don’t understand. It is as if they have mud in their eyes so they cannot see. Their minds cannot understand.

Jeremiah 36:3

Maybe the people of Judah will hear what I am planning to do to them and will stop doing bad things. If they will do that, I will forgive them for the terrible sins they have committed.”

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this message, you foolish people who have no sense. You have eyes, but you don’t see! You have ears, but you don’t listen!

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you live among people who refuse to obey me. They have eyes to see what I have done for them, but they don’t see those things. They have ears to hear what I told them to do, but they don’t hear my commands, because they are a rebellious people.

Mark 8:18

Do you have eyes that can’t see? Do you have ears that can’t hear? Remember what I did before, when we did not have enough bread?

Luke 8:10

He said, “You have been chosen to know the secret truths about God’s kingdom. But I use stories to speak to other people. I do this so that ‘They will look, but they will not see, and they will listen, but they will not understand.’ Isaiah 6:9

Acts 3:19

So you must change your hearts and lives. Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins.

Deuteronomy 29:4

But even today, you still don’t understand what happened. The Lord has not let you really understand what you saw and heard.

2 Timothy 2:25

You must gently teach those who don’t agree with you. Maybe God will let them change their hearts so that they can accept the truth.